Please join us for an interdisciplinary colloquium—consisting of Flash Talks followed by a panel discussion—as we explore collaborative opportunities spanning several teams of researchers at UC Berkeley and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. The goal is to learn more about a range of research activities spanning disciplines, departments and schools, focusing on early childhood interventions and/or policy relevant to improving health, education, and inequities.

The format will include brief talks (5 minutes) from students, postdocs, and early career investigators, which will provide quick intros and overviews of several different lines of investigation. These will be followed by a faculty panel and audience discussion. Panel discussants will include: Philip A. Fisher, PhD (Director, Stanford Center on Early Childhood); Lia C. Haskin Fernald, PhD (Professor of Community Health Sciences), and Ron Dahl, Director of the Institute of Human Development.

Speakers and Talk Titles:
Austin Land, Postdoctoral Scholar, California Policy Lab, Goldman School of Policy
Evaluating program sequences: Perspective from pre-K in Oakland

Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe, Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley, Psychology
Children’s language ecologies: understanding day-to-day variability in caregivers’ child- directed speech during the COVID-19 pandemic

Raymond Zhuo Zhang. MS Student, Stanford and Priscilla Zhao, Ph.D. Student, Stanford, 
Joint Attention, Computer Vision, and Foundation Models: How State-of-the-art AI approaches can analyze instances of early childhood development

Erlfang (Eleanor) Tsai, Ph.D. Student UC Berkeley  
Trajectories of parental stress and child socioemotional outcomes

Gabriel Reyes, Ph.D. Student, Stanford 
Money matters: How financial scarcity and prosperity impact parent and child wellbeing

Lily, Steyer, Ph.D. Student, Stanford, 
Shoestrings: An Innovative Early Childhood Intervention to Disrupt Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality in Exclusionary Discipline

Kristina Hallez, Program Manager, Center for Effective Global Action, UCB
East Bay Financial Need Study: Exploring how Financial Strain Impacts Parent-Child Interactions

Helen Pitchik, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley School of Public Health,
A 7-year follow-up of an early water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition intervention in rural Bangladesh

Nick Nguyen, Clinical Science Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley
Opportunities vs Adversities: Charting the Course of Youth Development

Sihong Liu, Social Science Research Scholar, Stanford, 
Child Care Unpredictability During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Implications for Parent Well-Being and Early Childhood Development